a previous owner whose name was jacob and we learned all about wine and beer. the place is always respectful and we open holidays and we never close. i think it's a good addition to the community and in a different neighborhood. so there they really like us. this is there for many, many years. >> you have 30 second, sir.

>> that is why i am requesting for the legacy for the store to stay the way it is because it is very that is very classic. thank you. >> a commissioners, the mater is now before you. >> remind the commissioners to mute the mics when you are not speaking. next commissioner please. >> commissioner: i want to congratulate all the legacy business applicants for this round. all of you spoke with great passion. i am so happy and proud to be added to the list.

and i want to call out the comment by the san bruno store and with no communication and no real understanding with the landlord about how important the small business is and thank you for understanding the small business that is in your property and very happy that you understand and realize how important it is to keep small businesses alive in the city. awe same thing as was already mentioned. i want to overall congratulate

everybody and also welcome our new staff coming in. to do the application for us. i have a few to talk about and first the san bruno supermarket. i love that store and is always an anchor and to hop in and hop out with the ethnic food and is also a much needed grocery store with the minority and asian and other culture. i really applaud the landlord to work so flexible and embrace to continue with the always changing district. congratulations. i fully support the application.

farley's is my coffee shop. i really appreciate what farley's and ambience where i shop, too. i am proud to be able to sustain your business and have that legacy for the generation. and the society is amazing and i hope you work with the neighborhood and their business to preserve and thank you for your application and your time

today. i appreciate your stories and my pleasure to hear them again. >> absolutely. go ahead. i just wanted to congratulate and one of the comments i want to add is the legacy businesses donate so many dollars and goods and services to the schools and charities to do that so generously. congratulations, all of you.

>> i always was not on the list of commissioners -- >> commissioner johns, please go ahead. >> u a commissioner black and i share another thing in common, but after the wonderful and quite accurate comments that the commissioners have made, really the only thing left is to move that all these applications be approved and sent forward. >> second that motion. >> very good, commissioners. there is a motion that is seconded to adopt approval for all the legacy and commissioner

black? commissioner foeley? [roll call] so moved. commissioner, that motions passes unanimously 7-0 and concludes our hearing today. i will remind commissioners that we have an officers meeting that we can join separately. great. thank you, all. all right. we are adjourned. stay well, everyone. >> thank you. fire prevention an

investigation, homeland security and the airport division. good morning, all. am i the only one hearing a dog, or is anyone else hearing the dog? >> no, i heard the dog, too. >> okay. >> i don't hear it. i don't hear a dog right now, so we're good. >> all right. >> good morning, vice president

feinstein, commissioners, sister maureen, congratulations on your new grand baby. this is my report to the commission today, wednesday, september 9th. i know we're supposed to have employee group los bomberos present today, however their president, mariano alias was deployed yesterday to a wild land fire up near the bear fire. so they will not be presenting today. it is, as you can see, a crazy wildfire season going on right now. and chief wyrsch may speak about it more, but i know we have 41 members out right now at various fires. there are so many fires going on. and you know, it looks like we all woke up in mars today or something. so anyways, so let's talk about

covid. so far, we have had 26 positive tests. we currently have 15 in quarantine. so we have had a bit of a jump. seven of those positives were folks coming back from wildland deployment, so we're definitely seeing how difficult it is out there to, you know, we can't socially distance, but we are putting some practices in place to try to head that number off, including having our members tested when they come home. and then we are most likely going to be putting them in quarantine for five days. and then testing them again before we release them back to the field, since we've had quite a few, well, seven people test positive. so there is that.

in terms of the economy opening, we are still working with other city agencies to move the opening of businesses across the city forward. i know fire marshal has been integral and critical to this and we're also starting to roll out a plan to ensure businesses are following these guidelines. it's kind of a -- plan, because the city really does want to get some folks back to work to get money generated again. and we're doing all we can to balance safety and operational perspectives with the need for the city to move forward. chief tom is working with her team to get the crisis response team plan in place to roll out as soon as possible. i don't know if you recall when we spoke about this before the crisis response team will be

similar to e.m.s. 6 community paramedicine. but it will have a community paramedic instead of a rescue captain. a community paramedic. advanced health care practitioner from the department of public health and a peer support person, likely from a non-profit, but hired by public health. a peer support person who has either experienced homelessness, addiction or behavioral health issues, so that will be the team going out. and i know we're working with d.e.m. and the police and 311 to figure out what calls we will be picking up. and it's going to take us a while to roll this out and we need to get it right, but we are in the process of doing that. and i don't know -- i'm hoping you all got the event details

for 9/11 that is happening this week. and if you would like to participate virtually, there is that option. we are making sure that those of us who do show up are personally distanced and the mayor will be in attendance at station 7 to make a few remarks. i have, of course, another meeting to go to in ten minutes, a department head meeting at 9:30. i will conclude there and take any questions. >> do we have any questions for jeanine from the commissioners and public comment? >> that's right, thank you. there is nobody on our public comment line.

>> president covington: okay. we'll close public comment then. commissioners, any questions for the chief of the department? i know i have one, but -- sorry -- anybody else first? okay. please. there you are. commissioner nakajo. >> commissioner nakajo: commissioner rodriguez. >> i'm sorry, i don't see commissioner rodriguez. >> i turned video off because it's all static. i can hear everyone. but anyway, the quick question for the chief was on this -- on the remembrance, 9/11, are we looking for people to be there in person? or is it just -- would that be

more of a hindrance or a bother and should we watch it online? >> you're muted. chief. >> chief nicholson: thank you. commissioner rodriguez, i think it's fine for you to watch it online. it's really what you're comfortable with. but it is being held virtually this year for the main reason of covid, social distancing and no events permitted, so it's entirely up to you. and if you feel safer being at home, please do so. that is totally fine with us. so we don't need people there in other words. no, we don't need a ton of people, but you are absolutely welcome. >> commissioner rodriguez: okay. thank you again. >> president covington: any other questions for the chief of the department? i have one. i'm sorry.

>> none at this time. >> president covington: thank you. chief, what about -- what seems to be an uptick in positive covid tests among our members aside from those that were deployed to the wildlands fires? what can you offer us on that? >> chief nicholson: so, i know that there have been some community transmissions and we saw an uptick in community transmissions in outside world. and we saw that here as well. so we are still doing everything properly as far as i'm concerned in the stations, decontaminating, and so unless chief velo or chief parks has anything else in terms of that? chief velo, anything? >> good morning, commissioners. no, i agree with you, the

community transmission, there has been some uptick. some members were related. the majority of the work-related came from the wildland deployment and that is community related in through the firehouses. >> chief nicholson: so that's why it's extra important for our members to be responsible when they are not at home. and we've been pushing that message since day one. >> okay. thank you. any other follow-up? okay, and we already called for comment, right, maureen? >> yes, we did. >> okay, let's let the chief go to the next meeting. we may see you shortly. have a good day. >> chief nicholson: you may. thank you. >> next agenda item, please. >> chief wyrsch is up.

>> all right. and do i have the ball, maureen. >> i'm going to get it to you right now. chief velo on standby, yes? >> [laughter]. third time's a charm. >> okay. should be heading your way. >> okay. >> do you see it? can you see the presentation? >> no. >> okay.

it's not coming up. okay. how are we there? >> good. >> all right. good morning, vice president feinstein, commissioners, chief nicholson, deputy chief of operations, victor wyrsch. this is my operations report for the month of august. that wishes to president covington with what she is going through right now. good morning, maureen. this is for the month of august,

we only had one greater alarm. i think i told you last month, things happen in streaks. we went from six to one. so did very well this month. we had a second alarm at 77 to 79 carmelita street. this was acting assistant chief abbott's fire. this fire is still under investigation. we have one minor firefighter injury. he ended up being okay. there was heavy fire present from the ground to the roofline of this wooden building. and we also had -- it was burning on the exterior siding of 661 to 663 waller. because the buildings were both burning possibly on all floors, a second alarm was called. there was an aggressive interior attack and at the same time aggressive exterior attack on the neighboring building. this was put out extremely rapidly. a great job by all members. i wanted to show you the first

alarm fire we had. sometimes we don't get a chance to see that some of our first alarms could easily become second, third, fourth, fifth alarms if they're not attacked aggressively, which it's known for. this is the magnitude of this fire and how well it was put out and how quickly it was put out. this was assistant chief brook baker's fire. we had a fire simultaneously burning up the hill, behind and also involved the billboard that you saw in the rear. that was at 8:15, 3241 san bruno avenue. again, all members did a wonderful job. for the fires in august, we had 22 working fires. we had one great alarm, the second i showed you. 32 outside fires. we had 20 grass fires. and we had an uptick, obviously, in the encampment fires, number

58. during the month for the most part of august we had 57 positions that were deployed and maintained for wildland and mutual aid. this is just some shots. i know chief velo has shown in his report on some of our deployments that we did throughout the month of august. currently as you know, we have 41 members as the chief stated deployed. these positions are deployed throughout the month. right now we have strike team 2253. there are 22 members there. there are five engines and they're at the creek fire. we also have oes361 staffed and that strike team is also at the creek fire. engine 11 and engine 71 recently was deployed with the strike team and they are working with alameda, salinas and cal fire,

also at the creek fire. lastly, eight members at the bear fire in oarhville which is what we see the results outside of our windows. we do our post deployment briefing at the division of training. we try to be there when the members come back to welcome them and get their debriefing and congratulate them on a good job they've done. also, in the month of august, we had two cliff rescues, 15 surf rescues and bay rescues. i'll be -- here it is. so 1500 people we handed out these coastal and cliff safety awareness brochures. lieutenant baxter, our p.i.o. has been instrumental in going to the companies, handing these out, going out there with them along the coastal area and beaches and it's been proving to

work wonderfully. in fact, we've received several dispatches while we were actually on the beach or the coastal area, so our response time has been extremely quick. i wanted to giving you examples of what the handouts looked like. our e.m.s. division update. we have a nice comprehensive report from a.d.c. sandra tong. it's very detailed. if you have questions, she's on the meeting. one thing i would like to bring up, the narcan report. if you looked at the narcan report, you notice there is different% imgs for -- percentages for the month of august on the right-hand side. that is because of we're redefining some of the naming we're using. the name of homelessness. we're using at people experiencing homelessness. it's the way we identify our housing status. so as you see, the n.a.s from the month prior to, that's just

because we established a new way to define them. so from here on out, the percentages will show the way they do this month. so this is the way they are put in the pcrs and that is why the numbers are -- they look a little different percentage wise. as far as the number of narcan administration, there has been a slight uptick. and again, that's usually because of the strain that is out there right now. i'd like to thank e.m.s. for all their hard work. unfortunately, a lot of their pictures, while they're working on patients, i'm not allowed to use because of hipaa, otherwise, i would like to thank them for their dedicated service. zero five prevention, we have a report from fire marshal daniel. extremely detailed report. they successfully removed to station -- excuse me, south van ness, 49 south van ness. they have a coordinated plan check and review.

their move is pretty much complete and they've done a great job. as i stated in last month's report, we have a lot of hurdles that we're working with, the fire marshal and his team are helping the city work with. bar cliff is one of them, slowed streets, transit lanes. and this is just a map that is incomplete right now actually. there is more on the plate. i usually get one to two a day that i have to approve. it goes through m.t.a., then usually captain shad law that works for us and then he brings it down to the first alarm companies, battalions, divisions. they put their input in and then it goes up to captain law, the fire marshal and then we get the approvals or the non-approvals and they get put on my desk and i have to make a decision whether i feel they're safe or

they're not for the fire department and the city's civilians and the businesses. these are just some examples of what gets put on my desk and what i end up having to approve. right now, we have everything approved except for i have two in my inbox i'll be working on today. but again, we're trying to get the city open as quickly and safely as possible. so i just want to thank dan dekozunio and his team for all their hard work. the airport division, this report from a.d.c. mark johnson for his division updates is fairly -- very complete. but he included pictures here on their live fire burn training in san bernardino. there is some impressive pictures of examples airport fire-fighting. their training has been extensive which i appreciate.

they've been seeing an uptick at the airport. we have -- you saw a picture of their offrig last month. they had their second transported right now, so we're excited to have another one. chief johnson has been trying to get more people trained as drivers and he has seen a lot of participation. which i appreciate that. we have two more that are passed up right now. so they'll be able to drive it when it comes. the s.f.l. is seeing a big uptick in transportation and activity and more flights have been added in the airport facilities are opening, so the runs are starting to increase. they had a total of 216 runs and 93 bike medic runs during the month of august. homeland security. here's the report from a.d.c. cochrane, who i'm wishing again speedy recovery with his injury.

i really want to thank rescue captain josh smith. he's taken over and taken the ball running with all of chief cochrane's projects. again, we have so much work we're doing with covid. our management, our response. and doing our best to keep our members masked at all times. we are -- it's a constant battle with covid, obviously, and we have our daily challenges that we work with. he's been working very well. right now, we're working on a process of filling chief cochrane's position and the temporary status, until he's able to return to duty if he's able to return to duty. during the month of august, we did a lot of training on the tactical training medical care. here's a photo of practicing. we've had a lot of participation with other agencies and unified command which is imperative. it's worked wonderfully. here's an example of some of our

tactical gear we use. these are tactical medics and we've had so much participation and interest with all of our medics. it's been wonderful. i want to thank them. we've been working with rescue and treatment in unsafe scenarios. so ever since columbine, we realize we have to be in an unsafe scenario at times. we can't wait until the scene is clear. we have to go in, be aggressive and try to save as many lives as possible. so this training has been very good with a tremendous amount of participation. on the other hand, we also have the k-9 training. the k-9 training has been well received. we had a virtual graduation. we were able to train and use the safe conditions wearing masks and keeping our six-feet distance and i'm very happy to

say that we have firefighter felicia lee who has returned to station 38 with her partner and a second firefighter will be returning to station 16 with his k-9 partner. my congratulations to both of them and their participation in that graduation. there is the graduating class. that is my report for august. and if you have any questions, i'm available. >> i believe we have -- somebody on the public line. >> vice president feinstein: do we have any public comment? >> would you like to make public comment, caller? >> no, i just wanted to say thank you to everybody and just, president covington, to thank

you very much for your report and -- [inaudible] and are very helpful to see. i was able to hear the end of the chief's report before she had to leave for her meeting. and thank you also vice president feinstein for chairing this meeting. i'll stay on for the rest of the meeting. >> okay. do you want me to keep you unmuted? >> yes. >> okay. >> president covington, would you like to take over? >> president covington: no ma'am, you go ahead. >> vice president feinstein: i'm sorry for the distress that you're dealing with. >> president covington: yes. this is a dear friend, a dear, dear friend. and she's been my friend since i was 3 and she was 2.

and i'm just not myself, so thank you. >> vice president feinstein: all right. we're thinking of you. all of us. >> president covington: i appreciate it. >> vice president feinstein: all right. there is nobody else on the public call-in line. all right then we're going to close public comment at this time. i know that i have some questions for chief wyrsch. i don't know, though, if other commissioners do? there we go. i have the grid queue back. other commissioners with questions? i see commissioner rodriguez. >> commissioner rodriguez: yes. >> vice president feinstein: commissioner rodriguez, i saw your hand first, so i'll let you go first. >> commissioner rodriguez: okay. so thank you for your report. i just have one question. you know, i notice you said

there was an uptick on the fires, the encampments. i just wonder, because i don't know what the past history was, but there were budget constraints. is there anyone going to see why there is an uptick on that and if there is anything that can be done to minimize the fires? or is it even out there? and that's really basically all i have. >> vice president feinstein: thank you, commissioner. chief wyrsch? >> yes, in fact, we are working very hard on that. it's difficult to exactly say that we had a massive uptick, because we just started tracking these fires the way we have. in the past, we used to label them as a different way and we would not call our arson squad. but now because we have an uptick in the encampments, we

are recording them -- each and every one of them -- and then the arson squad is called and they have to do a report. so the number may look like a massive uptick, but we were not recording them the way we were before. that being said, we have been handing out flyers and safety flyers to all the encampments. usually it's because of cooking, warming or heating. we noticed a majority of these, where they are. and we have developed handouts in many different languages and we're doing the handouts in all the encampments we can, and trying to get the message out. >> commissioner rodriguez: thank you. >> vice president feinstein: commissioner cleaveland? i'm sorry, commissioner rodriguez, another question? >> commissioner rodriguez: no. that was it, thank you.

>> vice president feinstein: thank you. commissioner cleaveland, i believe you had a question? >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, madame vice president. and thank you chief wyrsch for your report. a couple of questions. we changed the terminology on dealing with the homeless and wondered why did we make that change? or was that change imposed by other departments? department of health or whatever? >> yes. because at some point, some people are -- we're looking for a basic terminology that wasn't insulting. we're looking for a terminology where some people are only experiencing homelessness for a very short period of time. maybe they just got kicked out of their home and they're going to be -- have some sort of housing shortly. so it's a temporary homelessness. so we were trying to encompass all different degrees of

homelessness and not lump it all together as somebody that was, let's say, deciding to be permanently homeless. so it was broken down into a more politically correct terminology. and then we're trying to get the data to reflect that so we know we can have better data and figure out where our issues lie. >> i never thought of unidentifiable home addressed not being politically correct. >> the unidentify able, home address, there are people who don't want to give their address. they would rather not receive a bill or they don't want anybody to know where they live. >> so the uncooperative ones, okay. got it. >> commissioner cleaveland: i notice there was a big increase in the homeless-related calls

medical. station 15, station 16, station 18, station 20, station 26. 39, 40, 42, 43, 44 and 51. why? was that all due to reclassification? or what? >> i will have to research those individually. i think i -- >> commissioner cleaveland: they all doubled or tripled at least. >> yes, correct. i believe one of the main reasons for that is because, also some of the areas that we've moved them to are in different parts of the city. so they're actually in different shelters, in different encampments and they're spread out over the city.

but i will look at exactly those stations and give you an answer. i can e-mail it to you. i'm pretty sure that's why, it's just because we've been moving the shelters around. >> commissioner cleaveland: it just seemed like a significant uptick. >> yes. >> commissioner cleaveland: from a good third of all of our stations. under the issue of fire complaints, we had a total number of 250. that is a lot. what was the main reason? what are the main top two or three reasons you get complaints? i guess that's a chief question? >> yes, it is fire marshal. are you available? >> yes. good morning, commissioners, good morning, chief. yes, we have a table there with the type of complaints and identified all the type received. the most common complaint is

associated with fire alarms. either maintenance issues, or any malfunctioning issues related to the fire alarms. >> i notice that under the incidents by call type, that was by far -- well one of the medical incident was highest, but alarm second. which alarm calls turn out to be false alarms? >> that is something i would have to look into the number, commissioner. i don't have that readily on hand. >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. i'd be curious to know what our percentage of alarms that turn out to be false is. >> if i may add one comment there, commissioner. there is a difference between a false alarm and unwanted alarm. you may have an alarm due to

proximity to cooking, where smoke has triggered the alarm. that's an unwanted alarm. it functions at it should. then you have malfunctioning alarms, maybe it's been activated by me and should not have been activated. there is a difference between wanted alarms and false alarms. >> commissioner cleaveland: right. i would imagine that a false alarm is one that is triggered and there is no fire. you know, that's how i see a false alarm. it's not a fire. somebody thought there was a fire or somebody is playing a prank and -- >> i agree, but i wanted to make sure that the message is that these alarms, the majority of them, are not working when that may not be the case. they may be working as they should. that's my point.

>> commissioner cleaveland: okay. >> i'm sorry, commissioner, chief wyrsch on that one. the second to last -- third to last page of the report, you'll see alarms, a total of alarms, 1044 alarms that we had in the month of august which equivalent to 9% of our calls. so those would not be counted as working fires, because it would turn from an alarm to working fire in our data. so right now, we're working at about 9% of those as false alarms. and, again, it could be as fire marshal said, could have gone off because of smoking or somebody cooking or an actual malfunctioning alarm. we can have that broken down in the future for you. right now, it's 9% of the calls. >> commissioner cleaveland: that's not something that is off the charts. it's perhaps 10% end up being

false? >> correct. and we've got in -- we get a lot of false alarms when we have the heatwaves such as we did. san francisco really wasn't designed with some of the alarms that they had in. we have heat sensors that are light wells and sometimes when the sun hits them, it's that hot of a day, the heat shield gets hot enough to shut off the alarm and it's just due to the heat outside. we have alarms that are false alarms that are due to the smoke in the area. we have more sensitive alarms, smoke travels in through the window and sets off the alarm. there is many reasons we have what we call false alarms. >> commissioner cleaveland: do we have a lot of the red fire alarm boxes still, or have we taken those down? are those a thing of the past? >> so you're talking about the street boxes outside on the street corners? >> commissioner cleaveland: right. >> yeah, we do still have them. most of them are currently

working. they are in need of repair, replacement or another form of device. we have been in talks with doing it wireless, doing it 5g, doing a different design. i know the city and the civilians like our tradition and they like what they call the cottage style box and would like to see those remain. so that was on the table. and we had a lot of discussions with that before covid hit and then when covid hit, that's kind of been on the back burner. but i actually have the file sitting behind this computer right now and i've been in contact with them and starting to have that conversation opened up again on what the future plans are. as far as the wiring that is in the ground, it's become a thing of the past. so we're going to have to come up with a solution. >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you. i was curious about that. so... in the terms of the

a.d.u., i notice that you've had -- again this might be with a question for the chief, what neighborhoods of the city are we seeing the greatest utilization of a.d.u.s? >> chief? >> good morning, commissioner and chief. that is something i don't track in that detail, commissioner. i'm happy to add that if you wish. we just look at the volume that comes in. we look at the queue and how quickly we're processing them. for this level of this report, that's my focus, but we can change that if you like. >> commissioner cleaveland: i'm just guessing it's neighborhoods with backyards. [laughter] thank you very much, chief. that's all my questions, madame vice president. >> vice president feinstein: thank you. commissioner nakajo, any questions today? >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, vice president feinstein. not so much questions, comments again.

chief wyrsch, thank you very much for your comprehensive report. again it's a large report and when i read it, i don't know if it was my imagination, but it did feel heavier as well. i wanted to point out, again, and i appreciate the report, the combination of your narration with the photos, on page 3, your page then has summaries of fire of august 2020 and you break it down to working fires, outside fires, grass fires, encampment fires. that greatly helps for our comprehension on what is going on. i do appreciate, again, that summary page that you have. moving forward, i also wanted to denote on page 9, on your report, another summary page in

terms of cliff rescues, surf rescues, bay rescues with their particular numbers. that is the section with the p.i.o. and with the heatwave we just had, amazing that the heat was here and now we've got this weird-looking weather out there with fires raging in california. but it helps. and again, how many rescues occurred from cliff rescues to ocean beach and all of that. and i wanted to extend our appreciation to the department and its membership for moving forward -- [inaudible] i want to remark when you do show your photos on page 30 and

31, [inaudible] the map descriptions on parklets, play streets, slow streets, transit lanes, that definitely helps us in terms of -- [inaudible] -- work-level assignments are being given now. and that this is the chief's prevention and investigation section. and then on page 31, with the diagram that you showed in terms of names and m.t.a., that image again is -- [inaudible] . i do appreciate all levels of proposal for the airport live fire burns. fire department members. [inaudible] san bernardino. the only question and comment is that on page 16, chief tom's

section. division update. page 15. page 16. through the chief, through you, chair, to chief tom, was this area of challenges, successes, always part of your report, chief tom? or is that something that is new? because, again, i find this section in terms of -- again within your unit to -- challenges, successes -- [inaudible] -- and page 16, highlight is really, really quite interesting, but also, i think very helpful. chief tom, has this always been part of your report, or is this something added? >> good morning commissioner nakajo, vice president feinstein, other commissioners, as well as chief. yes, this is part of the e.m.s. 6 report and it is a monthly report that the chief does

monthly. so just last looked a little longer than normal, but yes, usually he does have challenges as well as successes specific to the e.m.s. 6 program. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you. can you also extend my appreciation to captain in terms of this particular report. >> of course. >> commissioner nakajo: vice president, i have no more questions. thank you, chief. >> vice president, i believe you're muted. >> vice president feinstein: i was. i wanted to comment just overall. i'm so proud of this department. that everybody is performing at the level that they're performing.

it seems to be one catastrophe after another that we're dealing with the city and the state. when i read this, everything felt, you know, from -- every section of this just really illustrates the amount of work that is getting done that is important work. and i'm going to talk a little more than i usually do about that, because i think it's really important that people understand and know this. sometimes, perhaps, you know, chief, i have to say, i couldn't believe the number of responsibilities that his department, or his division has. chief dewitt, the same thing. and just the number of matters that are getting taken care of

at a time when we could all be going crazy and ignoring these things and focusing on just the big things. and i think all of this adds up to make the department as great as it is in terms of prevention, in terms of success and really gives me great pride to be on this commission. so i just am -- i hope the message gets carried down to the troops, because, you know, they're the ones on the front lines, as are all of you, too. i know that, but it really was -- it was stunning to me to see how much work is getting done in these very troubling and just disturbing times. so that was number one. my other -- and this may sound

like a silly question -- i understand there was a captain's test scheduled for this week? is that -- do i have that correct? >> you are correct, yes. >> vice president feinstein: will that continue in light of all these other demands? will that get postponed? what is status of that? >> as of right now, the captain's test is still going to happen, still go on. we'll have to make arrangements for people off on the front lines of the working wildlands fires right now. >> vice president feinstein: so they'll have an opportunity, those that want to take the test and qualify to take it at another time? >> yes. that's correct. >> vice president feinstein: and the people that already took it, do you think they'll give them the answers or questions. >> chief velo is in charge of that. do you want to add anything? >> members, when they take a test, they have to sign an affidavit of confidentiality, so they're not to share any parts of the test.

as of right now, we have some members that are quarantined and they were able to get an opportunity to test later and some may be deployed. but members are required to sign this agreement that they will not share the information to the test. >> vice president feinstein: okay, thank you. okay. next, chief wyrsch, we're still educating me. help me the understand between an outside fire, a grass fire and an encampment fire. >> okay. so an encampment fire is where somebody, like normally the tents or somebody has sent up an encampment, usually on the sidewalk, under the bridges. many different places. grass fire is only grass-involved. and luckily, we do not have a tremendous amount of wildland grass in san francisco, but we do have our share in mclaren park, areas like that. and then an outside fire could

be considered just regular trash fire. we call no lost trash. it's overfilled trash can or somebody lights a trash can on fire. that would be no-loss trash or an outside fire. yes. >> vice president feinstein: i see. all right. >> if it's suspicious in nature, that's when we call our arson unit, they come out and do a detailed report. as i said, we have so many outside fires, grass fires and encampment fires on top of the regular fires we have, we're keeping the arson investigation unit just incredibly busy. they have a lot of reports to do and they're doing a great job. >> vice president feinstein: that's great. thank you. it seems to me two things are really bumped up here. one is surf rescues and the other is the number -- i get the alarms. the alert.

the number of motor vehicle, bicycle, scooter versus pedestrians, just seems to me -- i didn't go back and compare with prior reports, but every alert i get on my phone seems to be a call like that. and i'm just trying to figure out why. i understand on the real hot days, maybe there would be more surf rescues, but they're up considerably. and so are these vehicle collisions. >> as far as the vehicle collisions, percentage-wise i don't have the numbers in front of me for the past reports, but i do know that as soon as covid hit and traffic kind of slowed down and the streets were more wide open, we definitely had an uptick in speeding. speeders that are driving way too fast. that's my personal opinion.

my second personal opinion is with some of these slower streets, and a lot of people wearing their headphones because there hasn't been as much traffic, i believe a lot of people are not taking the necessary precautions and using the crosswalks and the sidewalks and walking out into traffic. again, personal opinion. but there seems to be an awful lot and we can look into it, but that's my opinion, is because of the changes in traffic and the changes in the conditions we've done in san francisco right now. >> vice president feinstein: that's actually very significant. and i hadn't considered those. do you take that into account when you're approving the applications sitting on your desk right now? >> i have a difficult time approving a lot of this, because you have to look at all of those different things. and that's the other thing, too. they have the motor scooters, the scooters and the bikes now

that are readily available, so a lot more people are riding bikes. and the social bikes and the scooters. so there is a lot more of those on the road than there were before. because of those programs that we have. so, yes, i have to take all of those into account when i approve stuff. >> vice president feinstein: i see many of them without helmets, so when i see the later head injury i'm not particularly surprised. so thank you for that. >> yes. >> vice president feinstein: just moving on here to the e.m.s. report, which is incredibly comprehensive, i must say. am i correct looking at page 11 -- because i'm still familiarizing myself with the statistics and what have you -- is it fair to say that approximately two-thirds of the medical incidents involved during the month of august --

involved individuals who were housed? >> that is correct, unless chief tom, you wanted to say otherwise. i'm looking for that stat. >> vice president feinstein: bottom of 11. yeah. >> 33. yes, that is correct. according to this, chief tom, did you have anything to add. that's fairly average, chief? >> chief, i don't have the same numbering as you do. is this the summary page with the six months? >> it's the second line from the bottom. >> it's consistent. >> 33% is consistent. >> previous months, 35, 36. we'll get a better sense whether or not the change in terminology

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executive directors to enter into a first-amendment for the december 14th, 2010 agreement between the mexican museum and the successor agency to extend the term and authorizing the director to transfer the grant agreement and authorizing the transmittal of the amendment and oversight board of the city and county of san francisco discussion action no.24-2020. >> the item before you is a request to extend the contract which expires december 20. as a result in partnership with

the museum we're requesting we extend one year and assign the agreement. we funded $3.8 million to date and still have $6.8 million remaining on the grant as you know last year the board submitted the agreement of $1 million is ongoing and the extension will allow to extend. we'll be presenting on the item and we look forward to discussion and we're available to respond to questions. with that. >> thank you.

i'm the real estate developer manager. we'll walk through requests to extend the grant agreement and authorize the transfer of the grant agreement and related funds to the city. i'll provide an every view of the project and then it up for questions or comments. and this is the successful cultural district including the yerba buena gardens and the moab

and contemporary jewish museum and undeveloped parcel was the mexican museum parse -- parcel shown here. the project site combines the original mexican museum slide. and in the areas shown in red is the mexican museum site and the building. this is the final project in yerba buena. and there were prior agreements including the 1993 land disposition agreement with the museum. the current mixed use project evolved out of conversation starting in the mid-2000s with the museum and partners who purchased the building in 2006. the parties combined the museum

and unused parcel for a high rise residential tower and museum in its base. in 2008 the museum formally agreed to become part of the process and in 2010 the former agency and museum entered into the grant agreement to preserve the museum's access for development of the museum space. the approval of the grant agreement anticipated the former agency's authority to obligate new funds woul end with the yerba buena redevelopment center in january of 2011. as you know in 2012 the agency absolved.

in 2013 they approved the purchase and sale agreement with millennium partners and the project was fully entitled by the city. it includes a high rise power and commercial units and museum in the base of the building. it's being built on plan land partially acquired from ocii. this shows the base. it was agreed to provide substantial community benefits and it created an operate

endowment for future costs. upon completion of the museum space the developer will deem that space to the city and the city will enter into a lease with the museum and the museum is responsible for the tenant improvements in their new space. towards that end there's approximately $6.8 million remaining in ocii 2010 grants. in terms of the status of the commission project construction completion is anticipated later this year an documents was issued this month and the developer expect to deliver the museum space to the city later this fall.

this is at the base of the tower nearing completion and closes the museum space. the former agency entered into a grant agreement in 2010 to help with costs for the space. the grant agreement created an obligation of the former agency to provide a total of $10.56 million to cover a substantial portion for pre-development activities and tenant improvements for the build out of the space and requires the funds be dispersed through separately approved agreements been four granted agreements. the last, last fall and approximately $6.8 million are

available the balance subject to revule. the grant has a -- approval. as we now starting in spring of this year the covid-19 pandemic has disrupted lives and livelihoods and caused substantial challenges to the museum's plans for financial management and program and the capital fund raising program is experiencing challenges as a result of the covid-19 pandemic and resulting negative impacts to the economy. and it intends to submit the design, construction and funding of the museum space. hour staff is recommending a new

extension of the grant agreement through december 2021 and staff is seeking authorization to transfer the grant agreement and related funds from ocii to the city. both actions are in support of facilitating the museum's successful completion of the project. the city will have an ongoing role in the submission project in administering the community benefits under the purchase and sale agreement and as owner of the museum space and landlord of the space and the fund is consistent with the city's ongoing role and the completion and operation of the space as we all know il will contribute to the cultural vitality and diversity. in addition the completion of the museum will increase economic activity and associated revenue from the patrons and

visitors to the museum and benefits would be passed on to the amenities which includes the city and county of san francisco. in terms of next steps both the amendment of the grant agreement and the transfer of the grant to the city are subject to the review and approval of the oversight board to determine if the acts are in the best interest. those requests would be heard by the oversight board at their next regular meeting september 28. thereafter it's subject to review and approval by the state department of finance. this concludes staff's presentation. i'd like to let you know representatives from the mexican museum are here today. joining me is the chair of the board of the trustees of the mexican museum and the vice chair of the board of trustees,

secretary of the board of trustees and others we're available for any questions you may have and that concludes the presentation. thank you. >> mrfk >> madame secretary, do we have members of the public wishing to provide public comment. >> those members of the public wish to comment dial 1-408-418-9388 enter 146 642 8927, press the pound sign twice to be entered in the call and press star 3 to be pressed in the queue. if you're already listening by phone president star 3 if you'd like to provide a comment. we'll allow a few moments.

>> there are no callers. >> no members of the public. >> commissioner: i'll close the public comment. let's start with commissioner scott. do you have questions or comments? >> thank you for your presentation. i've gone through it and so impressed and there's a question i wrote down. do you think the one year in light of covid is enough time

you're asking for an extension of a year. do you think that will be enough time for you? >> thank you, commissioner scott. i think the uncertain nature of pandemic we all acknowledge it's an uncertain time frame and we're balancing that with the progress the museum is making on its plans for the tenant improvement along with what the state department of finance may entertain with the oversight board. i can also speak to the time frame. it was proposed in conversations with their request to extend the grant agreement. victor, do you want to address the question? >> absolutely.

certainly it would be great and thank you for the presentation. the key point there is what would the department of finance and oversight committee feel more comfortable with. and we submitted the requests and local businesses small and large and some corporations and large businesses are not going re-open until maybe november/december and some probably not until this first quarter of next year. so things are not normal but we'd prefer to have one year and not be challenged by the

department of finances. it's a safer bet to go to the state and ask for one year we can't anticipate what they might or may not do. i think we'll have a friendly audience given some of the current extensions the state has offered with the stay at home orders as well as evictions and what everyone in the state of california is suffering. certainly maybe perhaps if i may, through chair bustos, provide 12 to 18 months at the pleasure of department of finance may be more helpful than just the 12-month extension and

maybe that would give them an opportunity to go with 12 or 18 months. it allows for the flexibility in considering the time frame and we would not have the same oversight board and changes to the grant agreement. that's part of the approach and

the assignment allows flexibility and future consideration the city could take we're perhaps more constrained by. >> commissioner rosales do you have questions? >> do you want the follow-up to that question part of my

concerns about the one year have been addressed. i defer to you to follow-up. >> the follow-up to commissioner scott's question is if we approve this for 12 months, are we giving the ability to negotiate with the city 18 months instead of 12. is that what we're doing as well? as proposed it would be an extension of 12 months and transfer to the city and we would then if both approved by

oversight board and the state we would extend the agreement and work on finding and transferring over to the city so that could be completed within the 12 months. and the need to extend the city would have time and the museum would have time to consider that. that would be the thought. thank you. >> if i may chair bustos i'd like to piggy back on one comment. in hearing the discussion i do think to give the museum as well as the city some additional work due to semantics perhaps a revised motion to do up to 18

months and provide the ability to do 18 months opposed to 12 months may be helpful for everyone. >> let's hear from vice chair rosales and then have discussion about that. >> thank you, chair bustos. my question is centered on the city less the first issue though i'd like to hear more about what our executive director thinks about the proposal by mr. marquez. with regard to the city this is a discretionary act on our part. in other words we're not bound by any deadline to make the transfer at this time?

>> we are bound to a time frame on the transfer. we would need to work through oversight board in the state to get approval of that and then work with the city partner on effectuating the transfer is more to come in terms of a time frame for tran ferg -- transferring that and get the prophylwe would need and -- approval we would need and work with city partners on what approval they may need on their side. does that address your question?

we take action to transfer to the city to make the transfer to the city at this time. >> through the chair because of the time line of approval and because we don't have authority we can take action. we can delay and give ourselves

flexibility at this time we have mixed response from them over the years and are strategizing for the best approach. >> i have three additional questions. which department of the city would receive -- would be responsible for the oversight on the project going forward? it's up to the city but it's the city department of real estate taking ownership of the cultural

condo of which the museum would be the tenant. and it would be housed in the administrator's office. it's normally up to the city to make that decision. that would be the assumption. >> okay. my question is, once the transfer is completed i assume our jurisdiction resets? >> that is correct. the grant agreement is the last financial obligation to fund the

museum we're also party to the sale agreement as beneficiary under the purchasing agreement and again that agreement lines up largely when the developers obligations are concluded which is the construction of the power which is almost done and the conveyance of that museum space to the city and payment of their various community community benefits and under our last obligations in yerba buena.

[audio digitizing] . the small businesses and local hire while there's similarities with ours and i try to be a mirror image on the l.b.e. program, what happens with those obligations not only in terms of commitments -- i'm assuming they transfer over, but what happens to the contract compliance side.

>> we work with the yerba buena gardens and that's precedent. ramon. >> i'm a supervisor for omcii. the obligation really ends they're committed to local hire and part of making arrangements and an agreement. i'm not fully 100% certain wirth respect to that.

and agree the commitment can continue as expressed by the mexican museum. >> thank you for the explanation. i refer to the chair about additional comments or questions. i'd like to state that i don't have a concern about the one-year time frame being expanded to 18 months for flexibility but prefer to retain jurisdiction unless i hear a contrary reason why not. so far i'm not convinced we should not hold on to the jurisdictions for at least a few more months. just to ensure all the agreements and all the promises

and our interests in seeing this project go through as we've envisioned it over now many years is realized. those are my comments. chair bustos. >> chair bustos, if i may add a few comments to vice chair rosales a question i think may be pertinent. >> i think we're good, victor. is that an amendment, chair rosales? >> yes. you're asking the commission to amend what's before us from one year to 18 months and retain jurisdiction for now. is that correct?